The River Ophelia

Justine loves Sade. And Justine is out of control… In the tradition of Bret Easton Ellis and Kathy Acker, Justine Ettler’s novel breaks new ground, and will electrify, shock and provoke.

Set in a world of inner-city grunge bars and clubs, kinky sex, drug-taking and desperation, The River Ophelia explores the uncharted waters of female desire, where the roles of victim and victimised blur and shift. Both a homage to and subversion of de Sade’s Justine and Shakespeare’s Hamlet, it is an explicit account of sexual obsession and violence.